My wife is attending a master degree program at a university here in Norway; she has an exam coming up with the topic: Understanding. Very well, she study Nordic literature and the topic got nothing to do with leadership or any other similar topic in this blog. I will not start to write about Norwegian syntax or analyze some Swedish poet, which is my wife’s domain. But the word “understanding” was very interesting. What is “understanding” when we put it in the work sphere?
un?der?stand?ing – According to dictionary.com??n d?r?stæn d?? Spelled Pronunciation [uhn-der-stan-ding]–noun

mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; …

Some are born to be great, and some can achieve greatness. But what is great, and why do we want to be great? And do we actually need to be great? Is great the same as famous? Is it fame? Money? Glory? Or just plain ambition that drive us to be great? When are we great enough?This is what I am twisting my mind around today. I have one goal that I follow; I want to be the best possible leader. I want to evolve to the next level. This does not mean that I want a promotion. It means …

The thing I find hardest to do by myself is evolving. Everybody define the evidence of evolution as a promotion. I believe that people should stop targeting promotions, and start targeting wisdom, knowledge and insight. As you start to focus on developing you knowledge and evolve by adapting greater knowledge the world around you will adapt. You won’t stay long in a mediocre job, if you are evolving this way. Either the job evolves with you or you get drafted to something new.
I also believe that you should work with something you love, find your passion and you will easily …

Have you ever considered your role at work? In all workplaces you will find givers and you will find takers. These two kinds of people are totally different and takers might end up ruining their own work sphere.
The psychology of a taker.The real world is a vision that exists inside your head. What you see and experience as the truth is only true to you and to no one else. The life you live is a fiction of your own experience and perspective all put together to create a reality that suits you. A taker is negative, selfish and is …

After participating in an discussion at another blog about disgruntled employees, where I said that if you are disgruntled, you have the wrong focus, I was confronted with this question: ”Frode have you heard Dr Rao speak? (There is a GoogleTalk). He makes the same argument.” – No I do not even know who he is. So of course, I had to find out about this and found this video. Since as some of my employees are reading my blog (You guys rock! And you are all doing a great job these days!) I feel like sharing my experience tonight. …

According to Ninemsn – Kyle Doyle faked sick, calling in to work to get a day off. All was well until his manager noticed his facebook profile update: “Kyle Doyle is not going to work, f*** it I’m still trashed. SICKIE WOO!” I am not going to spend more time writing about Kyle’s day off. I rather try to write about work morale and why facebook rock!
First of all a lot of young people today have low work morale.Training and educating young employees today must also include work morale and ethics as a part of any training program. They …